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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Senators crawfish on helping agents in Project Gunwalker scandal. See if you can't help concentrate their minds.

United States Senator Jeff Sessions.

Folks, this has been a frustrating morning. Senate staffers who have been completely briefed on the Project Gunwalker scandal over the last few weeks are deliberately not answering their phones. Others, including Charlie Harmon, the chief of staff of Saxby Chambliss, the U.S. Senator from Georgia, told one of his constituents, "We're on it." Yet, when pressed about the urgency of the matter, said "these guys need to get a lawyer."

No, Charlie, right now they need a Senator with a spine and a pair to do his damn job. The agents need a Senator to COME TO THEM. There are ongoing investigations, the main thrust of which, in my opinion, is to cover up the circumstances of Project Gunwalker and the death of Border Patrol agent Terry. To volunteer to go to the press during an ongoing investigation can end their careers or put them in jail themselves. Yet some are willing to do so, if forced by the inaction of your elected senators and representatives. The tools that the agency, Main Justice and the White House have at their disposal to shut these agents up are many and powerful. These guys need whistleblower protection NOW.

The staffers of the Senators below all have been briefed in one way or another. Yet none of them have reached out to the agents so far. The ostrich impulse is strong in DC and strongest in the GOP. These birds need some constituents to kick their asses and get their heads out of the sand, or their own anal sphincters, or wherever it is they are hiding from their responsibilities and this huge scandal.

Here are the skulkers/guilty parties so far:

Senator Jeff Sessions, former ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. His office phone is 202-224-5225. His press contact is Sarah Haley. Ms. Haley, along with Sessions' guy on the Judiciary, Stephen Miller, has been on my email list throughout the scandals of the past few months and has never responded. Her cell phone, if you'd like to leave her a nice, non-threatening message of supreme disappointment, is 202-641-0543.

Senator Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, whose chief of staff Charlie Harmon was so free with helpful legal advice for agents whose lives are on the line, has an office number of 202-224-3521.

Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa, new ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, whose office number in DC is 202-224-3744 and whose office number in Des Moines is 515-288-4415. Grassley's Second Amendment "go-to" guy is Nick Podsiadly and his Judiciary Committee guy, replacing Sessions' Stephen Miller, is Brian Downing. Downing also declined to talk with me this morning and has yet to return my call.

The safety of whistleblowers, it seems, is the least of his concerns. There's a lot of that going around lately.

When you get in touch with them, tell them that all they have to do is get in touch with me (at GeorgeMason1776@aol.com) or David Codrea (at dcodrea@hotmail.com) and we will, after making sure they are who they say they are, forward a means by which they can contact the agents who wish to come in from the cold.

There are reporters who are now working on this story. Ask the people above this question: At what point do they think that failure to get off their asses and do their jobs becomes felony assistance to a cover-up?

Feel free to post this to any firearms rights discussion boards or blogs that you can.

Mike VanderboeghThe alleged leader of a merry band of Three Percenters.

Seems to me the advice to lawyer up should be taken. If these guys have some important and embarrassing info to disclose and DON'T have a lawyer already they are fools. I hope they are prepared to spend a long long time in prison and have their families destroyed if they skip this important step.

No one wants to touch this with a ten foot pole now that the Gifford's shooting is in the headlines. None of our "representatives" want to be seen as "unreasonable" when it comes to regulating firearms and "high cap" mags with a highly publicized shooting being shoved into the public's conscience by the main stream media....and going after the principal gun regulatory agency of the federal leviathan is going to be doing just that in the media's eyes.

Done. I had results from the phone ringing and ringing, no answer, to leaving messages, to being told the person taking care of this issue was on the phone with someone else and having to leave a message on his voice mail.

Hope you and yours are well. I realize you must be very busy these days with all that has been proposed. But I am asking you to give some of your time to the current issue involving gun smuggling into Mexico and the reported involvement of some BATF officers.

BATF whistleblowers have stepped forward, as you know, and it has been alleged that one of the walked firearms was used in the murder of a federal agent.

Please lend these brave men your support and help them uphold the honor and integrity of the Bureau.

Interest in this issue is spreading like wildfire across the net and has gained the attention of a large spectrum of the conservative electorate.

Just sent an e-mail message to my Senator from Georgia, Senator Chambliss, busting his chops for failure to investigate, or even move, on the allegations presented by insiders at the ATF. I'll let you know what I get as a response from him.

I think you are suggesting we contactthe staffers, and not just the Senator's office, right?Senator Sessions numbers is now202 224 4124 (the number in the postis for the Committee.)I've tried the Des Moines numberseveral times and keep getting "thisnumber has been disconnected)all the best, cycjec.

May I suggest sending a fax, either alone or in addition to calls/emails? These people receive emails & calls all day long - with a fax you control your end of the conversation, have a record of receipt and content without filling the time waster (intended) email form.

I am writing to urge you to do everything possible to investigate serious allegations that the BATFE (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) has intentionally and criminally allowed guns to be transported across the US Mexico border without the knowledge of Mexican authorities. There is solid information from agents within the BATFE that this was done with the knowledge and approval of senior management within the BATFE. Apparently one of these guns was subsequently used to murder a US Border Patrol agent. The BATFE agents that have first hand knowledge of this incident are in desperate need of whistle blower protection and I implore you to direct your staff to at least reach out to these individuals and follow up. The BATFE agents can be reached through journalist David Codrea at (dcodrea@hotmail.com). The story is well known as “Project Gunwalker” I’m sure you can find an overview based on that term online. Please review this information and let me know that you are opposed to such patently illegal acts being perpetrated by one of our own law enforcement agencies.

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